Tag: China

The best resort in the Celestial Empire, “Eastern Hawaii” and the main Chinese health resort Hainan in the past was an exiled island for nobles. Today, only the lazy did not hear about him. A good half of Siberia and the entire Far East treat their ailments and ailments here, at the same time betraying…

China: Holidays, Events, Climate Public holidays Numerous national and regional holidays are based on the traditional lunar calendar and therefore take place on different dates from year to year. Here is just a selection of the most important Han Chinese festivals and holidays across the country: Date Holiday January 1 New Years Day Annually changing…

Guomindang and the Communist Party Sun Zhongshan in 1912 organized the Nationalist Party (Guomindang), but Yuan Shikai, declared illegal, brought the capital back to Beijing and began to govern autocratically. At his death (1916) the conflict between the revolutionaries and the government of Beijing worsened, which remained at the mercy of the generals who aimed…

Delegates from the CCP, 11 other smaller parties and the people’s army approved a provisional constitution. In 1950 an agrarian reform law was promulgated, with the aim of redistributing land to small and medium-sized farmers; in foreign policy, a thirty-year alliance agreement between China and the Soviet Union was signed in Moscow; meanwhile, China reaffirmed…

The civil war between Nationalists and Communists came to an end on the Chinese continent during the year 1949. Faced with the superior organization and discipline of the Communist troops, the nationalist ones, undermined in morale by the skilful adversary propaganda, badly guided by incapable leaders, little supported by the home front, upset by the…

Prehistory Fossil records document that China was inhabited from the lower Paleolithic. In particular, the man of Yuanmou has been dated over 1 million years ago, the man of Lantian to 600,000, the Sinanthropus pekinensis of Zhoukoudian (attributable to Homo erectus) to the middle Pleistocene. After these Paleolithic cultures it was possible to date various…

After the government moved to Formosa (T’aiwan), Chiang Kai-shek resumed power on 1 March 1950. The capital was established in T’aipei. In the early 1950s, the nationalists still occupied, in addition to Formosa, also the island of Hainan, the archipelago of the Chusan islands, the archipelago of the Tachen, some islands along the coast of…

In the meantime, the economy must still be directed from above and perhaps also supported by massive injections of public money destined for infrastructures (roads, telecommunications). Over the past four years, these have probably been the country’s largest voice of economic growth, but have imposed an ever-increasing burden on public debt . According to an analysis by…

Towards traditional Chinese religions, the attitude of the Beijing government was different for Buddhism and Taoism. While Taoism, the Chinese national religion that has never gone outside the borders of China, has been persecuted, with relative closure of temples and convents, imprisonment and “re-education” of monks, suppression of Taoist secret societies, etc., the former, as…

Newly constituted, the government of the People’s Republic of China expressed a desire to establish diplomatic relations “on the basis of equality, mutual benefit and mutual respect for national sovereignty” with foreign governments on the condition that they break off relations with the nationalist government and adopted a friendly attitude towards People’s China. According to…

The first initiative of the new regime in the field of customs reform was the law on marriage, promulgated on April 13, 1950. It revolutionized ancestral customs, such as marriages decided by parents, polygamy, concubinage; proclaimed the equality of the sexes; legalized divorce by mutual consent. In short, he sanctioned the emancipation of women. Prostitution…

Despite the Korean War, the country’s economic reconstruction progressed; the inflationary process stopped and production exceeded that of the pre-war period. The first five-year plan was launched (1953-57) and, in 1954, the first National People’s Assembly was convened, elected by indirect universal suffrage. In September the Assembly approved a definitive Constitution, which established the progressive…

Japan’s military operations in China during World War II are seamlessly linked to the Sino-Japanese conflict that broke out in July 1937 (for which see Sino – Japanese, war, in App. I, p. 433 and in this App.). According to Computerminus, Japan’s entry into the war against Western powers had the immediate consequence of enlarging…

Taiwan: sovereign state or Chinese province? According to Equzhou, Taiwan Island, also called Formosa, has offered refuge to the nationalist government of Guomindang, led by Chiang Kai-shek, which was defeated in 1949 during the Chinese civil war. The island therefore took the name of the Republic of China (Roc). At the time, the Communist government…

The year 1999, the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the PRC, had also seen the realization, in December, of another dream long cherished by the Chinese leadership: the reunification at China of Macao, a Portuguese colony for centuries, which followed that of Hong Kong of two years before. In May of the same year,…

HUMAN AND ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY Central-eastern Asian state. The numerous disputes affecting the extended border perimeter of the China are favorably affected by the choice of the rulers of Beijing to credit their country as a ‘quiet great power’ on the international political front. Thus, even if the budget of the Ministry of Defense expands rapidly…

If 2001 is to be considered as the year of the entry of the PRC into the WTO, the two-year period 2002-03 must be remembered above all for the political turnover in the center and in the provinces, with the rise of the ‘fourth generation’ of leadership. The sanction of the political and generational turnover…

Routes of communication. – According to Animalerts, the China was up to now very poorly equipped with railways; this hindered exchanges and stimulated autarchic tendencies, favored political regionalism and made it difficult to counter the famines, which from time to time affect the internal regions of the country. Only Manchuria had a fairly efficient network…

The territory. – In the last twenty years, the Chinese territory has increased in several respects: with the reunification of Macao and Hong Kong, with the colonization of areas that were previously uninhabited, and with the construction of large numbers of anthropogenic interventions. Since the most remote antiquity, Chinese civilization has always distinguished itself for…

In 1928 the Chinese Ministry of the Interior promulgated a series of regulations intended to take over the population census: due, however, to the Japanese occupation of the northern provinces, the area in which these preliminary census operations were carried out was necessarily limited to a few provinces only. The system followed was that of…

Population and society With around 1.3 billion people, nearly a fifth of the world’s population, China is the most populous state on the planet. To control the phenomenon, the Communist Party has launched a birth planning policy, according to which each couple can have only one child, except for twins, ethnic minorities, rural families and…

Although China has known many other religions, such as Manichaeism, Islam, Christianity, its religious history appears to be dominated by the various fortunes and reciprocal relations of Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism. In this regard, it should be noted that Confucianism is not a religion but a doctrinal arrangement developed by Confucius of the classical religion…

Finance. – According to Recipesinthebox, the Chinese financial situation has been characterized in recent years by many negative aspects: highly passive trade balance, growing deficit in the state budget, disorder in the entire economic life of the country. The deficit of the state budget, covered more and more extensively with the issuance of tickets, depended…

Opera houses and theaters As the traditional place of origin of the famous “Peking Opera” (see under “Special features of the city”), Beijing is of course also home to various theaters. First of all, the People’s Theater and the Beijing Concert Hall, which is simply a unique address for musical events, must be mentioned. The…

The People’s Republic of China is a land of contrasts. The “Middle Kingdom” is one of the oldest high cultures and civilizations in the world. The over 6,000 km long Chinese wall, the terracotta army of Xian and numerous temples bear witness to thousands of years of history. At the same time, China is the…

According to Abbreviation Finder, Beijing is the center of a huge China. In Beijing, the modern metropolis encounters a culture that is hundreds of years old. In the Chinese capital, Beijing, the achievements of historic dynasties, modern skyscrapers, and the communist worldview are seamlessly intertwined. History in the shadow of skyscrapers Beijing is one of…